Govinda Niroula

• University of Otago

Evaluating fault segmentation is important for our understanding of seismic hazard assessment and fault growth. However, it is still unclear what controls if reverse fault earthquakes will rupture across segment boundaries. Here, we combine fault mapping and trench data from the low slip rate (0.04-0.15 mm/yr) multi-segment Nevis-Cardrona Fault (NC...

Kathmandu valley is an intermontane basin in the lesser Himalaya of Nepal, and three ancient cities; Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Lalitpur, hosting seven world cultural heritage sites are located within this valley. Being its location just above the Main Himalayan Thrust; main seismogenic plate boundary thrust fault, Kathmandu valley had been repeated...

Being located in seismically active Himalayan mountain belt, Nepal has been the locus of many devastating earthquakes. The Mw 8.4 Bihar-Nepal earthquake of 1934 AD was the biggest earthquake disaster in Nepal that had highlighted the need of a building seismic design code for safer construction. Though the necessity was realised earlier, Nepal deve...

The intermontane basins of the Himalaya are prone to damaging earthquakes as they are located roughly 10-15 km above the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT), a major seismogenic thrust fault in the Himalaya. After the Mw 7.8 2015 Gorkha earthquake, the geometry of the MHT has been investigated using different approaches. Two contrasting models with a singl...